Under The Oak Tree Characters

Five years ago, the legendary commander known as the War God vanished after a deadly betrayal during a classified military mission. The world believed Marcus Hale had died. But he survived. Now living under a false identity, Marcus married into the Bennett family where he is seen as the useless son in law and disgraced by his wife and her family. When the Suprene leader of his military faction finds out he is still alive, he brings him back as his successor. However, the city he returned to is ruled by powerful tycoons, ruthless criminal organizations, and corrupt political elites. When they begin provoking the wrong man, they will soon discover a terrifying truth. The man they humiliated… is the City War God. And this time, he has returned to collect every debt.

Detective Ethan Carter was a cop who wouldn't take bribes. Then a senator was murdered. Ethan was blamed for the murder. He was put in prison for three years. A prison riot helped him escape. Now everyone is trying to catch him. Ethan isn't running to survive. Hes running to expose the conspiracy that destroyed his life. As buried secrets begin to surface Ethan discovers that the senators assassination was the first move in a plan that could place an entire nation under the control of criminals. With no badge no backup and no one he can fully trust Ethan has one chance to clear his name before the people hunting him silence him forever. Sometimes the truth isn't found in a courtroom. Sometimes it has to outrun death.

In a decaying world ruled by mega-medical corporations, medicine has become a weapon. Cybernetic healers—known as Medarchs—can rewrite DNA, manipulate nanobots, and decide who lives or dies for the highest bidder. Raymond Briggs, once a prodigy under the powerful Helix Dominion, is betrayed by his mentor, framed for bio-terrorism, and cast into the BioWaste Districts, the toxic slums of Neo-London. There, on the brink of death, a dormant implant in his neural core activates: the Forbidden Healer System, a sentient nanotech interface that offers him unimaginable power. At first, Raymond uses it to survive. Then… to fight back. But as he heals and kills, the System evolves, granting him skills that blur the line between restoration and annihilation. Every use extracts a toll: pieces of his empathy, his humanity, his soul.

Left to rot in the depths of the Black Dungeon by the people he trusted, Marius was supposed to die a nameless orphan. Instead, he fused with the soul of the last Origin Dragon. Now, armed with the Origin Genesis System and the forbidden Dragon Devouring Art, Marius can do what no human has ever done: craft cheat-level abilities from nothing, extract the bloodlines of his fallen enemies, and evolve by consuming dungeon cores. The Academy called him trash. The world shackled him with a talent-based caste system but Marius is no longer human. To take his revenge, he has 74 hours to execute his betrayers right under the nose of the Academy’s lie detectors but eliminating them is only the beginning. In a world where the Ten Thousand Races hunted dragons to extinction, Marius will slaughter his way to the top or devour the cosmic order trying.

What comes after death? HE was ready to accept that he had lived a meaningless life as a sworn sword to another.... for another. HE was ready to accept that his life, which fell apart in the blink of an eye, and led him to tread through countless battlefields as a common footsoldier of no renown, was his sole accolade as he passed on. That was all there was to it. However... Death isn't the end. There is no time to rest. Another life awaits, and you have the privilege of choosing what you will be when you are reborn. But you work for it. You toil. You prove your worth. Whether the end goal is to become a Devil, an Angel, a Young Master, a Hero, a Giant, or a god. You bleed for it, in 'Prospect For Reincarnation'! --- Hello there! I will be posting this story on Royal Road under the name Shade Arjuun!

Bang! The door was kicked open from the outside and three policemen came in holding guns. “What's happening?” Bruce had never been so confused in his entire life. The police ignored his question as they walked towards him, pointing the guns straight at him as one of them said “Don't try to do anything funny Mr Bruce Ortiz, do not move an inch.” “Hey I don't know what I did, what did I do?” Bruce looked around as though he could see an explanation of this written on the wall somewhere. “Mr Bruce Ortiz, you're under arrest for the theft of $750,000!” “What!” Bruce's eyes opened in shock “What the hell are y'all talking about? I've never stolen anybody's money in my life.”

Kaelen Vance was the crippled dishonor of the elite Vance Sword Clan—born with a shattered spirit core and reduced to a low-level servant. On the eve of his eighteenth birthday, his own stepbrother stabs him in the chest, framing him for treason and throwing his body into the abyss of the Abyssal Rift. Instead of death, Kaelen awakens the Abyssal Sovereign’s Grimoire—a primordial weapon system that feeds on dark spirit energy and converts every fatal blow into sword mastery. He returns under a shadow mask, armed with an ancient style long thought extinct. To his former family, he is dead trash. To the underworld, he is the masked executioner known as the Shadow Blade. He will scale the ranks from lowest outcast to invincible Sword Saint, cutting down corrupt patriarchs and corporate overlords until everyone who trampled him kneels.

Caden Voss was dead or so the world thought. A rogue fugitive and former top black ops agent, Caden is pushed into a survival game of death when he discovers his life has been manipulated by a covert government program. His identity stolen, replaced with a clone, and buried under several layers of deception, Caden sets out on a quest for revenge against those who betrayed him. In a battle against time, Caden must discover the truth regarding Project Revenant, a mission to create flawless soldiers. With his adversaries hot on his heels at every turn, including the deadly clone who shares his face, Caden's only friend may be a woman from his past whose secrets may transform everything. Betrayal. Revenge. Identity. And the truth that might destroy them all.

When the beaten and broken Seo Ireum is on the verge of giving up, a strange blue screen appears. [Do you want to live] After accepting the offer, he doesn't expect his path to head to the glittering stage of Korea’s most competitive idol survival show, Starlit and into the harsh world of the entertainment industry. Each mission brings him new skill, fame and power. But also reveals fragments of horrifying truth. His father's death wasn't an accident, his mother's death a lie and the system guiding him may be something far more personal than artificial intelligence. As Ireum rises under the spotlight, every applause hides a knife, and every stage hides a secret. In a game where beauty sells and betrayal wins, can he use fame as a weapon for revenge?

Leonel, 27 years old, son of the wealthiest man in Britain, found himself in the body of an abused, affinity-less, hybrid prince, demon-human of the demon Kingdom. His uncle, the demon king, sent him to the human kingdom under the pretense of protecting him, but it was all a ruse. Assassins were sent to kill him, as the king feared he was a threat to his throne. On the brink of death, Leonel discovered new powers within himself. A spirit companion, a dual affinity for Light and dark magic, and a demonic eye - all rare and coveted. With new power at his disposal, Leonel set out on a journey to reclaim the demon kingdom. Along the way, he'll face many challenges and will have to decide what kind of mage he wants to become. Will he use his powers for good, or will he succumb to the darkness within him?